Église Notre-Dame de Domanova

English translation

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History

The place name "Domanova" appears as early as 942. The first mentions of the church are later (1293). The construction of the church in this place is linked to the legend of the discovery of a statue of the Virgin by a lost lamb from the flock. In 1580, Protestants set the building alight and killed the hermit. It was probably following this episode that the church was restored and the nave was covered with a roof on timber structure replacing the old collapsed vault. The hermitage develops to the south of the church. It comprises on the ground floor a porch roughly equal to the length of the nave and open to the outside by three round arches. The pilgrims' hall follows the porch and is accompanied by a kitchen. In the axis of the porch, a door with rectangular marble frame gives access to a barrel-vaulted corridor which serves, on the right, a room covered with a brick barrel vault (former cellar or storage room) and, on the left, the hermit's apartment on the upper floor. At the end of the corridor, the door to the church is a round arch. The church is a single nave with semicircular choir. A gallery occupies the foot of the nave. The choir is covered with a cove vault. A chapel borders the first bay of the nave to the north. A bell tower composed of three masoned pillars topped with pyramidions stands above the gable.